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Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, screams into the mic as he performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

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Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, holds up a rainbow flag as he performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, yells as confetti blankets the crowd at the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Roslyn Williams, from Conneticut, get emotional as she watches Imagine Dragons perform on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, stands on the edge of the stage as he performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Imagine Dragons, Dan Reynolds, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jenny Lewis performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Neon Trees, Tyler Glenn, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Neon Trees, Tyler Glenn, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jenny Lewis performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Branden Campbell, with Neon Trees, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Shannon Shaw opens the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival on the JaM Cellars Stage on Friday in Napa. (Chris Riley—Times-Herald)

Lydia Night performs The Regrettes on the Firefox Stage on the second day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Saturday. (Chris Rileyâ€”Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Neon Trees, Tyler Glenn, plays with Chris Allen as they perform on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lydia Night, left, performs with Brooke Dickson and The Regrettes on the Firefox Stage on the second day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Saturday. (Chris Riley—Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Vintage Trouble, Ty Taylor, jump rope with his microphone cord on the JaM Cellars Stage on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Vintage Trouble, Ty Taylor, performs in the crowd in front of the JaM Cellars Stage on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jenny Lewis performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Vintage Trouble, Ty Taylor, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Vintage Trouble, Ty Taylor, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Logic performs on the Firefox Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Fans watch Logic perform on the Firefox Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Ryan Met with AJR dances as he performs on the Firefox Stage on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Mitchy Collins performs with Lovelytheband on the Firefox Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Ken Griffey Jr. and Graham Elliot grind meat to make sausage at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jenny Lewis performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Ken Griffey Jr. and Graham Elliot dance at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Ben Simpson, of Napa, strikes the gong to start Masaharu Morimoto's Guinness World Record attempt at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Sumo wrestlers carry in the 205 pound tuna to the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Michael Voltaggio uses liquid nitorgen to freeze a saki bomb at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

The Bella Twins taste a frozen saki bomb from Michael Voltaggio at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Masaharu Morimoto sets a Guinness World Record at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage for slicing 100 pieces of 3.5 ounces of tuna from a 205 pound fish in 12 minutes and 49 seconds. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Sumo wrestlers give a demonstration at the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jenny Lewis performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Lead singer for Neon Trees, Tyler Glenn, performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jenny Lewis performs on the JaM Cellars Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Just Loud performs on the Firefox Stage during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Taylor Hawkins with The Foo Fighters and Chevy Metal, fires a sprinkle cannon as he makes a cake with Diff Goldman and Sen Dog of Cypress Hill on the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage at BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival on Saturday. (Chris Riley—Times-Herald)

Brooke Dickson performs with The Regrettes on the Firefox Stage on the second day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Saturday. (Chris Rileyâ€”Times-Herald)

The Regrettes perform on the Firefox Stage on the second day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa on Saturday. (Chris Rileyâ€”Times-Herald)

People enter in to the Monkey Shoulders Port a Party Speakeasy during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

People carry drinks under a sun shade during the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Large slices of watermelon were popular on the warm first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley Music festival on Friday. (Chris Riley--Times-Herald)

Jim Harrington is the pop music critic for the Bay Area News Group. He began writing about the Bay Area music scene in 1992 and became the full-time pop music critic for the organization's Oakland Tribune in 2006. He is a South Bay native and graduate of San Francisco State University.